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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Yeah, I remember liking Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird well enough. I remember knowing what was happening in Gatsby well enough, but it wasn't until later that I was able to relate to it in the slightest. I remember thinking that ''The Scarlet Letter" was boring as all get out, though that might've been largely because the teacher didn't do the greatest job of teaching it.
Frankenstein was a good example of what I mentioned above. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when I first had to read it (mainly because I was expecting something more along the lines of the movie monster version and was thus disappointed when most of the story turned out to be philosophizing on the nature of humanity), but when I looked back on it a few years later I found the themes to be really interesting.
edited 4th Apr '16 7:31:56 AM by JapaneseTeeth
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Totally agreed on The Scarlet Letter. I think that was the only book where I actually fell asleep while reading it.
I can't think of ANYTHING I was told to read in English that I liked anywhere close to the stuff I was reading on my own. Doesn't help all the "What is the true meaning the author intends" "What does this represent in the greater context of the work that this particular color was used in this scene?" Junk that you all know how much I think is a load of pretentious hogwash that went along with it.
Now as to good books, the G.M. Barrow pony books need to be canon, there is just so many awesome things in them (baring some Early-Installment Weirdness ) Like the Princess Luna one.... hat has the Mane 6 using the Map... to play a massive game of Pony Risk. Also it has Tiberius, and Tiberius is awesome, seriously show, when will we get Tiberius introduced!?
I actually remember really liking The Giver when I read it in middle school. That book was great.
They made me read Crime and Punishment in high school. I liked it so much, I wound up reading as much other stuff by Dostoevsky as I could.
I remember, I dunno, finding most of these harmless, though I can't remember a whole lot about Catcher or Crime and Punishment (the latter of which I actually picked for a summer reading assignment).
I also read 1984 pretty much out of a sense of obligation (I felt like if everyone just knows works by Pop-Cultural Osmosis instead of reading them the originals might as well not even need to exist, which would be a shame)... and really enjoyed the worldbuilding and just the whole experience.
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.I read The Giver (plus sequels), but not for school.
One thing I didn't mention before about Wakfu:
I thought it was cool that Elely was a female lop, since IIRC, all the lops shown in the series previously were male. The traits lops are associated with are stereotypically male, so it's nice to see that females can be dumb hot headed warriors too.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI remember reading Animal Farm in sixth grade. I'm pretty sure that was actually the first time I was formally taught about allegory and I thought it was really interesting. Obviously, they had to simplify it a bit because we obviously didn't know all the political context, but the general idea of "each character represents a real person or people" thing got through pretty well.
I also remember reading a fair bit of poetry I enjoyed in high school (I'm still a pretty big fan of Edgar Allan Poe and John Donne). Weirdly, I didn't mind analyzing the poetic devices and such too much either. As long as the analysis stayed in the vein of "why would he choose to use this word hear instead of these other synonyms" and such it wasn't too bad. Going past that into "but what did he mean?" was a headache.
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?I thought that was the Nazis' fault.
Heh, we didn't get to that until high school. Again, I enjoyed it. Not subtle at all, but it didn't need to be. Also inspired a great (if also Anvilicious) Pink Floyd album.
edited 4th Apr '16 8:49:40 AM by YamiVizziniX
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.I'm pretty sure political discourse was ruined roughly five minutes after "political power" was identified as a thing.
And yeah, looking back on it was really weird that they started us on that so early. I guess they figured that the whole "animal" theme was a good way to keep us interested in a concept we would've found boring otherwise. Weirdly, we also read Beowulf, or at least a summary of it with a few excerpts of a popular translation. Though in that case it was easier to keep us interested, since "a king hires a warrior to kill the monster terrorizing his people" is a story that sells itself.
edited 4th Apr '16 8:57:31 AM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryI've never read Gatsy (though I probably should, given the reasoning to follow), but from what I've heard and what you guys have said, I'm pretty sure had I read it in high school, it would have hit a bit close, given that I always wanted to do these ambition group projects and I was stuck as a non-drinker hanging out with people who would get drunk into complete inertia (as in, past the point where the party stops being a social thing and everyone having either passed out or puking).
I remember Mockingbird quite fondly, though. Same with Flowers for Algernon.
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiFun Fact: the animated Animal Farm adaptation was funded by the CIA
because they thought it wasn't anti-Soviet enough.
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I remember we spent a while going over how to pronounce the names. And like I said, it was less reading the actual thing (which was well beyond us) and more just getting an outline of the plot.
I actually picked up a translation of Beowulf this summer and read it. Good stuff.
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Some books I had to read in high school that I enjoyed were To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, and Joy Luck Club.
I really hated Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men. I don't remember what I thought of The Great Gatsby, though.
When we're done, there won't be anything left.